After 45 years of being a Sacramento summer tradition, Eppie’s Great Race came to an end Saturday just the way George Johnson said his father would have wanted – with a “bang.” The decades-old triathlon had record-high registration numbers, as well as the most Ironman athletes ever to participate in the event, Johnson said, adding that it was the bitter-sweet end to an era.

Centrist Democrats met this week seeking to convince potential presidential candidates they don’t have to embrace key policies of the party’s liberal base